I am well. And that is an understatement of huge proportion. I am as I have never been before in this lifetime. Which is to say that I am free, I am full of love and it pours in and out, whether there is a "lover" or there are "love hers". 

I have been blessed to be connected with 3 women that arose out of my medicine work and with their accompaniment through counseling, ceremony and initiation, I have uncovered my long cloaked point of repeated suffering expressed through relationship. Once uncovered, I have lovingly laid it to the side. It has given me all of it's gifts and I no longer have to seek repeated acting out of my own abandonment by the poor souls who try to love me. So clever this one act player who insists on a single script where I play both parts. 

Sweet thing, you can rest now. I've got you.
Love, 
me

"My three-day retreat was one of the most profound human experiences I've ever been a part of. Joey, Ali, and Koorosh each brought something uniquely powerful to create a space of reflection, self-development, and change. It opened my eyes to seeing the world a different way, it opened doors to getting to know myself on a deeper level, and opened my heart to connecting with people who will forever be friends.”

Anonymous, Nebraska

Having worked with the team at Sentience Retreats for well over a year now, the influence their work has had on my life has been immense.  I have experienced positive changes in my sense of well-being, as well as in my behavior, that I would not have believed possible a year ago.

Each team member brings a unique and beautiful contribution to the whole: Koorosh’s expertise as a marriage and family therapist is unparalleled in my personal experience. His ability to navigate very challenging personal and family dynamics has been a joy to observe and participate in. His work has helped me and my family work to resolve issues that have spanned decades. He has a deep reservoir of clinical expertise and knowledge. He possesses a gift for listening and then identifying the most relevant parts of a conversation, bringing my awareness to key insights as we have worked together. It's a marvel to watch his insight laser in to the roots of issues.  Ali is a beautiful, clear and gifted soul. Her insight, skills in bodywork, yoga, breath work & meditation have helped facilitate deep changes in me. Her innate purity has allowed me to feel safe going to some of the darkest areas of my past, where I have ultimately found peace and resolution. As a Reiki master, Joey’s somatic and energy work has helped me to connect with my own energy, and move through stuck emotions and patterns that no longer serve me today. She possesses an old wisdom, and I have experienced her as a clean vessel for channeling God's love and healing in my life.
I feel deeply seen and loved by each of them. This gift is difficult to overstate. At every step of my journey, there has been thought and care that has gone into every element of my experience with them.

 If you are considering a team to guide you on your personal path of healing and progress, I could not offer a stronger recommendation for you to explore working with this team.

Thank you Koorosh, Ali and Joey for being God's hands in my life, and for helping me to be more of the father, the husband, and the human I have always wanted to be.

Thom Hall

For Joey:
I was on antidepressants from the age of 16 to almost 40. During that time I had tried many times to get off my meds and was  unsuccessful every time. Fortunately I was then connected to Joey and successfully weened off my antidepressant and began micro-dosing. What a beautiful and life changing experience! With her gentle guidance and support, I am now medication free and absolutely thriving! I have since recommended her to many friends. I truly believe everyone can benefit from micro-dosing and everyone needs a Joey🫶🏼

For the retreat:
My life has been forever changed for the better since attending the Sentience Retreat! There are truly no words to accurately describe or capture the immense amount of healing that went on for myself and the other attendees. Any time I talk about my experience, I become overwhelmed with emotion and am immediately taken back to that safe, beautiful healing space.
The Sentience Team did an amazing job of making me feel safe, supported and loved. It was so well organized from start to finish.
I believe every person can benefit from this type of retreat. I can’t wait to join another one in the future!

In search for personal growth and healing, I attended a journey with Sentience Retreats. The experience gave me the opportunity to dive deep into my soul and help me find a new and healthier perspective on my current life path and goals.
I’m forever grateful to Joey Bothwell and her amazing team of facilitators who supported our group throughout our entire process. By applying healing modalities such as breathwork, yoga, reiki and other types of functional medicine we experienced a holistic approach that aided both our minds and bodies. Each healer offering their own area of expertise assisted our personal exploration in a unique way. I’ve remained close with a handful of friends who I bonded with on our retreat. They’ve all become an essential part of my healing process.  
Additionally, the accommodations were luxurious, and meals provided by their chef far exceeded any of my expectations. I’m grateful to have had this experience and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to return as I continue my self-exploration and growth.

"What an impressive trio of kindhearted, clear, and competent folks!   Joey, Koorosh and Ali really know their stuff at all levels of the bio-psycho-social strata and impart that wisdom with love and understanding.  They were so so good to me and my co-participants and made us all feel safe, heard and free to explore the full spectrum of what these modalities offer.   A retreat with them can allow one to re-imagine the world in a ways that fosters an abundance of healing and connection. Just do it!" 

-John Doyle MD.

I’m a Green Beret, special ops military man that earned every ounce of the PTSD that I was carrying into this retreat. I had lost friends, my job, my trust in myself and was quickly losing my wife and two young children. I didn’t see a way out and was at the end of my rope. I went into the retreat skeptical and nervous but because of the care from the experienced guides, I was able to understand my blocks and habits and DO something about them. I’m now a different person. I get on the floor and play with my kids. I’ve found a passion for hobbies that I enjoy, again. I’ve even starting taking dance lessons with my wife! I couldn’t have done it on my own. Thank you, Sentience Retreats. I salute you and the gift you’ve given myself and my family.

I’ve been on every kind of antidepressant out there since I was a teenager and couldn’t understand why everyone else in the world didn’t seem to struggle like I did. I started working with Joey and her healing modalities, doing both a macro retreat and the microdosing coaching. She helped me titrate off of my SSRI and then introduced me to my body and the ways that I had been ignoring it. I’m finally feeling like a person, again. I have emotions that don’t overwhelm me and tools to now understand how to move forward in my life with some compassion and ease. She’s so clear in her directions and joyful in her quirky metaphors that I can actually take in what she is saying and put it into a practice. I didn’t believe I was someone who could do these things for myself but now I am.. She’s a genuine angel. And I genuinely like myself now because of her. My only regret is that I didn’t meet her sooner.

Joey & Sentience provided a space to experience a group retreat that was relaxing and transformative. She and Brooke were gentle stewards to people seeking healing in community. Joey brings out the softer side of people, relating on deep, inner wounds, often stemming from childhood experiences. I had expectations before that were flipped on their heads over the course of the weekend. Joey provided ecstatic breathwork, Reiki, beautiful and healing food, luxurious accommodations in the desert, sharing circles, art-making, and a floating sound bath under the stars in a unique, private setting. Overall, I’d highly recommend Sentience retreats and faith family to those seeking insight, revolutionizing their sense of meaning and purpose in the Universe, and divine interpersonal connection.